Özil's magic left foot -- or was it Oezil's ?

[Lisa Galvin]

I guess you could sort of approximate it with the pronunciation of "ou" in "could", "should" (or the "oo" in "foot", the "u" in "put"), though those are rough examples, since of course the pronunciation of these words differs depending on your English.

 

Lisa Galvin



                                                   



 

> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:13 -0400
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> My tongue doesn't go around French either. Can you illustrate with
> some American word I know how to pronounce? :-)
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> Joel
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> At 6/24/2010 01:43 PM, Jim Parish wrote:
> >Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> > > yes, it's a mid front rounded vowel.
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> >Right, right, I forgot to include [+front]. Damn three-dimensional
> >diagrams....
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> >Jim Parish
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